The Irish standard., 1887-02-05
THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD.

THERE IS newspaper IN DahOGa lOE eV'
cry twelve hundred population.
In Kentucky last year yearly five mill
ion bushels more of corn were raised than
in 1855.
NEARLY twenty-five million dollars worth
IF candy was made in California during the
ast year.
Mr.. GAY, one of the millionaire Congress
men, has about 81 500, 600 invested in sugar
plantations in Louisiana.
ONE OF Cincinnati's chief Industries is the
manufacturing of lead, fifteen million
pounds of which are made every year.
NEAR Toronto is being constructed the
first steel steamer ever built in Canada.
The engines, however, are being made in
Scotland.
IN the matter of raising crops cheaply, it
is safe to lay down the principle that. large
crops cost less to the acre than small ones.
Chicago Journal
A NEW industry recently developed in
Hancock County, Maine, is the gathering
Of white pine and spruce cones for French
and German markets.
DURING the year 1886 American mills
produced 1.35O, 900 tons OF steel rails, val
ued at SIC, 100000. The prospect for 1887 is
still better.-Pitt$bu1yh Post.
THE amount of capital and capital stock
put into new Industrial enterprises III the
South during 1856 is reported at $l29, 00O,-
600, as against 600 in 1Ss5.-CAicaf
yoMiMa}
IN Montana during the winter cowboys
make a living by killing mountain lions, for
which % bounty of eight dollars per head is
paid. The animals are ferociOus, and some
are very large
THE slaughter OF Holsters at Prince Ed.
ward Island is something astonishing.
There We're exported the past season 81, coo
cases, mostly to Europe, which involved
the killing of 35 900, 900 Holsters.
NEGRO hands have been found valuable
in the new cotton mills of the South. They
take readily to the light work and endure
the hot and close air OF the mills better
than the white enlployes.-Chicngo Journal.
THE sausage-cutter imported from Ger
many in 1868 is still III use at Canajoharie,
n. Y. 1t is said that nearly every one who
has ever lived in the village has had the
use of the machine at one time or an nother.
Utica Herald.
'sSUPPosE that two half-tlays be taken out
Of the school week Of every scholar in the
grammar schools of Boston and devoted to
industrial education. Would it not be de-
C1IGlly lOf CuS DGuSuL Ol LllS pupllS9'' AShS
he Boston Herald.
THERE is money in wood pulp, judging
from the demand One mill in Brunswick,
orders, running night and day, and pulp
made there has gone to Boston and re-
turned in the shape Of newspapers within
forty ght hours.
JAMES G. RICHARDSON, of Lake City,
has inv tyi1y NJ
SO that while lying in bed, by pulling wires,
he feeds his horses, lights the Kitchen fire,
and opens drarghts Of the base burner il,
the sitting-room. Mr.. Richardson is from
Connecticut.--N. Y tSW7s.
A NEW YORK housekeeper writes that
she has a maid servant now working for
fourteen dollars month who had several
Thousand dollars in railroad stock which
she has accumulated She reads the news,
dresses well and does good work, from
scrubbing TO cooking or sewing.
A PITTSBURGH natural gas company is the
largest one in the country. 1t supplies over
four hundred manufacturers and over seven
thousand dwellings with the entire amount
of fuel consumed. The total area OF pipe
leading into Pittsburgh is given as 1,341 ,602
square inches.-PiHsburyh Post.
TIE decline OF the silk industry in
India, for which various causes have
been assigned, has at length been prov
en- by Mr.. Wood Mason, an English
naturalist, to be due to a destructive para
sitic disease Of the worms The affection
seems TO be identical with 'Spebrine,"
WHICH 7'Avaged French silkworm nurseries
from 1S49 to 1865, and was eradcated from
Europe by the discoveries Of Pasteur.-
ArkausGW T3'uyeh,r
FIXED wages for a '.day's work'' is not
she proper mode Of contracting. There is
as much difference i'll {. days work between
individuals as in the value of products OF
the farm. Nor can any method be devised
For determining the value OF o. days work
IN farm until the labor has been per,
formed. Whenever work can be done by
the piece it should be the rule, though this
can not We'll be the case on a farm.---A1-
o0ay Journal.
CssLIFoKNIA made in 1886 25,O0U, 900 gal
Ions OF wine, against but i,5co,0 last year.
The San Francisco Call says 4O,O0j,OW
pounds of grapes have been shipped East
as table fruit. GO,000,O0O pounds made into
r;aisins, 20,O09, 600 pounds made into brandy
and over 215, 900 pounds made intc VINE.
The eastward shipments Of lemons, lines
and oranges will be twice as large as they
we're istSb yeaT, II Is salu, oWlHS 10 d feduc-
tion in freight charges.
The winter wheat belt has been pushed
westward almost three hundred miles in
the last three years: according to Frank
Wilkeson, of the New York Swu and this
is due entirely to climatic changes. These
changes he considers due to the extensive
irrigation along the eastern base Of the
Rocky Mountains, the wind according to
ia tho,
immense irrigating bitches and distributing
it where before it had been unknown.
A LOVING SQUIRREL.
Pathetic Illustration of the Intensity OF